Carnival 2015, Part II: Mardi Gras and More

Carnival season 2015 is wrapping up, and colorful images from Europe and the Americas keep coming in. Collected here are more photos from just the past few days of Mardi Gras and Carnival festivities in New Orleans, Rio, Belgium, Panama, Germany, France, and more.

''Momotxorros'' take part in the carnival wearing his typical carnival dress, in Alsasua, northern Spain, on February 17. Momotxorro, characters who seem to have been resurrected from a prehistoric ritual, come out onto the town's streets. Wearing horns and hiding their faces under headscarves, they are dressed in a white sheet stained with blood, sheepskin gilets, blue trousers, white socks and black sandals. They tour the town roaring fiercely and brandishing their wooden staves, goading and frightening everyone who gets in their way.#

Revelers in traditional costumes and carnival masks parade through the German village of Elzach in the Black Forest on February 15. The traditional Elzach Carnival parade with its fool character called "Schuttig" ('ghastful') which dates back to the year 1530, is to exorcise the winter.#

A Gille of Binche throws an orange while taking part in the parade during the carnival event in Binche, Belgium, on February 17. The Binche carnival is the biggest and the liveliest annual event in Belgium. Up to 1,000 Gilles parade in the city center of Binche, wearing a red, yellow and black medieval costume hung with bells and decorated with fluffy lace at the neck, wrists and ankles.#

Supporters of the presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto took to the streets of Jakarta, clashing violently with riot police, after his loss to incumbent President Joko Widodo was announced on Wednesday.